True crime stories & great mysteries

Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.


True crime stories

Black Dahlia Murder mystery

Black Dahlia Murder

The famous and still unsolved murder that took place in California - a young woman, aspiring to be an actress, was found dead on the empty lot in Los Angeles.


The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine mystery

The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine

The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine or Lost Dutchman’s Mine is a legendary rich gold mine hidden somewhere in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona. Although the exact location is not even roughly known...


Texarkana Moonlight Murders mystery

Texarkana Moonlight Murders

The Texarkana Moonlight Murders were a series of killings in and around the city of Texarkana in 1946. An unknown masked killer called the Phantom Killer attacked 8 people, out of which 5 died.


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Great mysteries

Dyatlov Pass incident mystery

Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...


The Somerton Man mystery

The Somerton Man

In 1948, a corpse of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. The contents of the hidden pocket are puzzling the investigators to this day.


Glenn Miller disappearance mystery

Glenn Miller disappearance

Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...


Oak Island mystery mystery

Oak Island mystery

A small island on the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, became famous after the discovery of a strange well-like hole in the ground with a bottom made of wood. At least that what it looked...





Controversial theories

Moon landing conspiracy mystery

Moon landing conspiracy

After Apollo 11 was shown landing on the Moon on July 20th 1969 as the first manned mission, instantly the conspiracy theories popped up that it was just a staged show for the public and Russians.


UFO sightings mystery

UFO sightings

When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...


9/11 attacks mystery

9/11 attacks

Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...


JFK assassination mystery

JFK assassination

American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...



Unexplained phenomena

Dyatlov Pass incident mystery

Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...


Beast of Gevaudan mystery

Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...


High Rock event mystery

High Rock event

In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...


UFO sightings mystery

UFO sightings

When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...



Crime and mystery movies

The Tall Man 2012 mystery movie

The Tall Man 2012

Cold Rock is a small town, where the legend of the Tall Man, who kidnaps the children, is still alive.


Cure 1997 mystery movie

Cure 1997

Detective is assigned to strange murder case - different people killed someone in exactly the same way and none of them remember why.


Evilenko 2004 mystery movie

Evilenko 2004

Loosely based on a hunt for Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.


The Maltese Falcon 1941 mystery movie

The Maltese Falcon 1941

Detective Sam Spade takes on a simple case - all he has to do is find a missing woman, but matters complicate quickly when his partner is found dead and Sam could be the prime suspect.



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